Madonna’s ‘Like A Virgin’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

November 9, 2024 Mark J. Marraccini

Madonna’s breakthrough second studio album is an incredible timestamp of a period in her career when so much was on the line and global superstardom beckoned.

Chic’s ‘Risqué’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

July 23, 2024 Terry Nelson

Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards and crew’s third studio affair boasts refined production and irresistible melodies. And let’s not forget one of the most famous and important basslines of all time.

Madonna’s ‘Like A Virgin’ Turns 35 | 10 Fast Facts

November 10, 2019 Justin Chadwick

Upon its initial release, ‘Like A Virgin’ challenged the listener to contemplate not just Madonna’s overt sexuality, but also his or her own feelings about the thin line between sexual freedom and repression.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.